Lisa Guerrero Quotes

All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.

That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.

In athletics, I've gone through ups and downs my whole life.

For every athlete, Olympics is the target, but mine is a little different. I am focusing on improving my timing; that's what I think about.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

When I raced, I had great parents, even a greater coach and a nutritionist. I was never insecure.

Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.

Nobody can walk on a track and beat me unless they have an extraordinary day and I have a bad day, which I keep from happening.

You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.

Fans and reporters, they don't get that ever since I was five, all I've done is competed against something. I always had a goal. Then, whenever you hit a point, there's a point in an athlete's life where it's like, 'Is it still worth it?'

When it comes to sports, it requires a lot mentally and physically.

A football player at any level must set goals.

I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.

I've never been cold during a big game. It's the adrenaline. You're always moving.